Sentences with phrase «plant emissions dropped»

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In 1995, the first year of the new rules, sulfur emissions from power plants dropped by 19 % to 11.9 million tons, more than 3 million tons below allowable limits.

«Despite the large amount of emissions produced by shipping the coal such a long distance, our analysis shows that the total emissions would drop because of the superior energy efficiency of South Korea's newer coal - fired power plants,» said Dalia Patiño - Echeverri, assistant professor of energy systems and public policy at Duke.

In the department of silver linings in very gloomy clouds come news that carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants dropped 3 % last year due to the recession.

If methane is emitted by plants in prodigeous quantities, is reduced growth, in, for example, the Amazon forest due to higher temperatures and drought, a candidate for explaining the drop in methane emissions from the early 1990s?

Power plant emissions of the offending compounds, nitrogen oxides, have dropped but remain too high, Mr. Boehlert said.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

Dropping 4 gigatons may appear easier than it is as experts consider many future emissions to already be «locked in» due to fossil fuel power plants that are already running or currently under construction.

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Together, replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation with renewable sources of energy, switching to plug - in hybrid cars, going to all - electric railways, banning deforestation, and sequestering carbon by planting trees and improving soil management will drop carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 more than 80 percent below today's levels.

If the rest of the world joins Australia in this simple step to sharply cut carbon emissions, the worldwide drop in electricity use would permit the closing of more than 270 coal - fired (500 megawatt) power plants.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.

(One big caveat here is that many of America's carbon - free nuclear plants are in danger of closing, which could slow or halt the drop in power - sector emissions.)